Greg Rucka Quotes

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

The scalded head feares cold water.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

I just love to watch people get scared. It's like, 'Yes, I accomplished my goal!'

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinated to that.

It is nearly always invisible dangers that are the most terrifying.

Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.

I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.

I have a long, complicated history with horror.

His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

Please don't kill me!

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

The fear's as bad as falling.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.